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Hello all,
I just installed a handsfree kit in my car.
is there a shortcut that turns on Bluetooth?
Right now I have too much navigating to turn it on.
I don't like to to leave it enabled all the time.

Member

Hello all,
I just installed a handsfree kit in my car.
is there a shortcut that turns on Bluetooth?
Right now I have too much navigating to turn it on.
I don't like to to leave it enabled all the time.

New Member

I have a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with UConnect. I leave my Bluetooth on 24/7 and charge my phone every night. Just couldn't see any sense in turning it continually on and off. My iPhone is basically the only phone I use day in and day out.

Really haven't seen that it affects my battery life enough to concern me. WiFi ..... different story.

Member

I have a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited with UConnect. I leave my Bluetooth on 24/7 and charge my phone every night. Just couldn't see any sense in turning it continually on and off. My iPhone is basically the only phone I use day in and day out.

Really haven't seen that it affects my battery life enough to concern me. WiFi ..... different story.

It seems to me that wifi doesn't do anything while the phone is asleep, but bluetooth has to keep a constant connection. Because of my possible misunderstanding, I always shut bluetooth off, but never shut wifi off.

is there someone who can explain why, while sleeping, wifi would drain a battery faster than bluetooth?

Member

I was wondering if there was a shortcut available to turn bluetooth on and off. I like to turn the bluetooth off when I'm not using a headset to preserve battery life. Right now you have to click through a couple menus. It would be great to have an icon on the desktop that when touched would turn BT on and off. Just would be quicker.

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Genius

There's nothing for this unless your phone is jailbroken. Apple happily gives us a slew of battery-saving tips that involve frequently toggling off services like 3G, Bluetooth etc., then makes it clumsy and slow to get to where you can toggle those and does not allow 3rd party apps to fill the gap here.

Genius

There's nothing for this unless your phone is jailbroken. Apple happily gives us a slew of battery-saving tips that involve frequently toggling off services like 3G, Bluetooth etc., then makes it clumsy and slow to get to where you can toggle those and does not allow 3rd party apps to fill the gap here.

I found that despite the apps available through the apps store, 2.0 was not worth it and I downgraded back to 1.1.4 jailbroken. After I jailbroke, synced my data back on and loaded all my programs that I used to have. Then I noticed that my baseband was still upgraded. But the phone works fine, so I am happy with everything.

One side note: the volume of my ear piece on 2.0 was horrible compared to 114.

Genius

Wow, glad that's working good for you Hawk. I will not be leaving 2.0 - the new features and wealth of apps are too much to forego for me, and I have faith that stability issues with these initial 2.0 builds will be conquered soon ...

Zealot

I found that despite the apps available through the apps store, 2.0 was not worth it and I downgraded back to 1.1.4 jailbroken. After I jailbroke, synced my data back on and loaded all my programs that I used to have. Then I noticed that my baseband was still upgraded. But the phone works fine, so I am happy with everything.

One side note: the volume of my ear piece on 2.0 was horrible compared to 114.

New Member

I found that despite the apps available through the apps store, 2.0 was not worth it and I downgraded back to 1.1.4 jailbroken. After I jailbroke, synced my data back on and loaded all my programs that I used to have. Then I noticed that my baseband was still upgraded. But the phone works fine, so I am happy with everything.

One side note: the volume of my ear piece on 2.0 was horrible compared to 114.

Not at all. The OS has been around for a year. The updates are new, but should be stable, with all the stringent testing and requirements Apple has.
My hacked phone sounds more stable (it's as solid as a rock) and has better battery usage than many people that have either updated to 2.0 or bought the new 3G phone based on the comments I have been seeing on here since the 12th.

Agreed! SBSettings is definitely a must have. Especially if you toggle a lot of different things. They have toggles available for airplane mode, bluetooth, wifi, location services, SSH, Processes, 3G, Edge, Brightness etc.